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'The salesman told me I didn't need to pay a cent.'

DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.

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Visagraine

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: vee-sa-grayn

Sentence: The intensity of Jenny's monthly attack of visagraine depended on how close she came to her credit limit.

Etymology: visa (card) + migraine

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COMMENTS:

I just realized that this could appear sexist. I know that Johnny could just as easily buy 35 pairs of shoes (or power tools for that matter) My apologies to anyone who needs them! - administraitor, 2007-07-04: 10:35:00

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Expentorture

Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: ex - pend - tore - chur

Sentence: Jonathan was subjected to painful expendtorture every month when his credit card bills arrived. It hurt his brain to contemplate how to pay for his compulsive spending.

Etymology: expenditure, torture

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Plastipain

Created by: mkbransford

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Visache

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: viz-ayk

Sentence: Her visaches were just as intense as her chocolate induced migraines.

Etymology: Visa + headache

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Buygraine

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: by-grayn

Sentence: He had been caught up in an 8 hour Ebay whirlwind and he could already feel a buygraine coming on

Etymology: buy, migraine

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COMMENTS:

He needs to take some Buylenol..good word. - Nosila, 2009-07-16: 12:10:00

;D - xMelody, 2009-07-16: 16:03:00

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Debtache

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: det - aik

Sentence: After her Sunday spending spree, Nancy came home with a splitting debtache. Good thing that she had purchased ten bottles of Tylenol on sale. When she received the bill, she finished off the other nine bottles.

Etymology: debt, arche, play on headache

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Buygrainal

Created by: amysmiles2000

Pronunciation: bi-gra-ah-nal

Sentence: My husband gets a buygrainal every January 13. That is after the mail delivery.

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Migrastic

Created by: Paloma

Pronunciation: my-GRAS-tic

Sentence: My online shopping habit has created a migrastic-inducing monthy ritual of opening my credit-card bills.

Etymology: migraine + plastic

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Cranialcreditsyndrome

Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: k-ray-nee-'l-k-red-it-sin-dro-m

Sentence: He felt a wave of cranialcreditsyndrome come upon him as he looked at the credit card bill from last month.

Etymology: From the word cranial meaning of the skull from the medieval latin root cranium which was from the greek kranium meaning skull which was related to the word kara meaning head

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Sinvoice

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sinˌvois

Sentence: In order to compensiate for her breakup with her boyfriend, Joyce went on a shopping spree. She went through a considerable amount of plasticoin. Her euophoria lasted nearly a month until the sinvoice arrived.

Etymology: sin (an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offense) + invoice (a list of goods sent or services provided, with a statement of the sum due for these; a bill)

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Comments:

petaj petaj - 2007-07-04: 03:45:00
Sounds debititating!

petaj petaj - 2007-07-04: 03:45:00
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-07-16: 00:05:00
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James